well, believe it or not, I did never create a map to use it, I am just trying to solve the problems ;-)
Your are probably right, afaik the precompiled bounds are only used to set the admin level tags, the data cannot be accessed to draw an object.
> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:13:57 +0200
> From: kukuk@suse.de
> To: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] [Patch V1]Re: Still problems with lakes
>
> On Sun, Oct 21, Gerd Petermann wrote:
>
> > Reg. admin_level=2: That's funny, I thought it might be useful to delete all boundary=administrative relations completely
> > and only use the precompiled bounds.
>
> You cannot use precompiled bounds to draw borders on your map, can you?
>
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